John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Lives of Water (2003), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), andDomestic Garden (2015), all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company (U Michigan P, 2012). For the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, he edits “A Poetry Congeries. He is a Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University. You can purchase his books of poetry here: